Wait, wait! Do you mean there is a direct link between Librarianship and IBS?! I have never ever had intestinal problems until I learned all about them from a sick-o co-worker. Now I have it! Is it psychological?! Is it contagious?! Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO....

What about the co-worker who DOESN'T talk about any of this sort of thing, but who kinda sorta has an aroma of a leaking colostomy bag about him -- and I'd be more forgiving if I knew that's what it was, except I daren't come out and ask?

It might be a colostomy bag that he's confiscated from one of the readers ("Please note: the exercise of bodily functions are not allowed in the Reference Library") He'll have been distracted by an asymmetry in the display of the stamp pads and forgotten all about what's in his pocket.

I now know how many polyps one of my colleagues has on his colon. He's using his "outdoor" voice to tell another colleague about his colonoscopies. Great, as I'm typing this he's talking about how his father found "bleeding." EWWWW!